Pacific Rim was that rare, beautiful thing… a very dumb movie made by very smart people who enjoy really dumb movies. It existed entirely to show us gigantic robots punching out equally gigantic goopy monsters, and it was great. And we’re now getting a sequel.

Global News is reporting the movie starts shooting in November, will be mostly shot in Toronto, and has a working title of Maelstrom. Nerdy nerd fact: The original movie had the production codename of “Silent...